This tutorial will show you how to install PHP MyAmin panel using FTP.
This will be useful in case when you do not have remote connection to a database, your hosting provider do not have installed PHP MyAdmin, or when you are not so familiar with your database server and want to manage it with friendly user interface.

The installation is rather easy, but you may have issues if you haven’t done that ever.

First download the latest version of PHP MyAdmin from their official website: www.phpmyadmin.net

Download phpMyAdmin.x.x.x-language.zip one (the one with extension ‘.zip’) ‘“ this will be easy to extract even if you do not have dedicated software on your computer for archives.

Extract all the files to a folder on your local computer and then using FileZilla to upload transfer all the files and folders on your hosting server in a folder created for PHP MyAdmin files. I called mine PMA:

Now it is rather not so logical, but in order to have phpMyAdmin configured with script instead of editing files on the server trough SSH ‘“ you should go and create one ‘config’ folder.

The previous picture shows how to do that using FileZilla. Now we must locate a file called ‘config.sample.inc.php’ on our local computer. Then rename it to ‘config.inc.php’ and upload it into the newly created folder.

When the transfer is finished right click on the ‘config’ folder and give 755 permissions.

Apply to all files and directories. This is important for the PHPMyAdmin installation.

Now go to this URL: http://www.your-domain.com/PMA/setup – where www.your-domain.com will be your hosting server address or domain name.

Now click on ‘NEW SERVER’ inside the phpMyAdmin setup to setting up your database server.

I will not continue further since all of the next steps depend on the configuration and the permissions of your database server and this information can be gathered from your hosting provider or from your server specification.
There are little icons like question marks with self explainable pop-ups for every field.

If all the settings are correct when you go to http://www.your-domain.com/PMA/
You should see the phpMyAdmin login screen:

About the Author: Anthony G. is an IT specialist with more than 9 years of solid working experience in the Web Hosting industry. Currently works as server support administrator, involved in consultative discussions about Web Hosting and server administration. One of the first writers in the Onlinehowto.net website, now writing for Free Tutorials community - he is publishing tutorials and articles for the wide public, as well as specific technical solutions.

Hi sohrab,
If you want different version of PHP than the one installed on your server, you have to compile it manually and set it in your apache. There is a lot of information in Internet on the matter. You can start with http://www.php.net :)